Design and Development of Electrical and Mechanical Instruments for the Auroral-E Program,

Abstract

The Auroral E-Program consisted of four rocket payloads which were launched from the Poker Flat Research Range, Fairbanks, Alaska, on March 6, 1981. This report describes the engineering activities carried out during the development of the A10.903 payload. The payload experiment consisted of a double-probed electric field instrument to measure ac and dc electric fields, a density strip for measuring electron densities, and an automatic gain control (AGC) unit. Auroral-E Program objectives were to obtain in-situ measurements of several atmospheric and ionospheric parameters during a continuous diffuse aurora.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA104045

Entities

People

  • Donald Girouard
  • Peter B. Anderson

Organizations

  • Regis University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Amplifiers
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Contracts
  • Digital Data
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • Ground Support
  • Ground Support Equipment
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Power Converters
  • Telemetry
  • Test Equipment

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics